Dirtcast by the Pennsylvania Dirtbags
Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 11 segments
Jesse Smith and Bearcat discuss Jesse driving from Indiana to Pittsburgh to join the Steeltahn…
And not that it was not fun, but it's just not my style of, like, I don't go to cities, you know what I mean? And then I started to feel a lot more comfortable once we got into the forest and on the mountains and stuff.
And so that, um, honestly, like big shout out to Mike, like him being there, I think helped a ton with like me, like feeling like I was like, you know, in the right spots.
Like, I wish I was as cool as Mike is like, I, um, but like the, the coolest thing too, is like, Don't take this the wrong way, but I did expect a little bit more of a frat party vibe.
It's fun to be out there with people who are also having fun, even though the thing that we're doing is not necessarily fun in certain moments.
but that was like like it felt like we were like um as we got into like day two three and four it really felt like we were like um meshing together as a group and then also like helping each other out overcoming the task um kind of like in in a pretty epic way like Cause the ride is so ridiculous and having that whole like through line experience with everybody, like, I think really like brings, brings people together in a really fun way that is it's, it's reminiscent to me of like, whenever I was doing like high school and college athletics, like you get towards the end of the season and like, everyone's been like training hard and like, I kind of felt like the same kind of like character arc of just like, like relying on the group to like keep going and like having that fun banter experience, like the same way, like I had on like my college sports team or my high school sports teams.
And it's funny you say that about like the, the frat vibes.
Cause I think like, there's a lot of misconception about what our group is right because you know what you see on the internet so the name pennsylvania dirtbags doesn't really help out either right
like but all those all the beer stuff it's like it's like it kind of comes off that way um which it which is fun you know it's fun to like have the the cool merch and all that stuff um But like in terms of the actual like experience, that is not even close to what we did.
Like, I mean, I'm sure somebody did, but like it really was not the focus of the trip.
And not that it was not fun, but it's just not my style of, like, I don't go to cities, you know what I mean? And then I started to feel a lot more comfortable once we got into the forest and on the mountains and stuff.
And so that, um, honestly, like big shout out to Mike, like him being there, I think helped a ton with like me, like feeling like I was like, you know, in the right spots.
Like, I wish I was as cool as Mike is like, I, um, but like the, the coolest thing too, is like, Don't take this the wrong way, but I did expect a little bit more of a frat party vibe.
It's fun to be out there with people who are also having fun, even though the thing that we're doing is not necessarily fun in certain moments.
but that was like like it felt like we were like um as we got into like day two three and four it really felt like we were like um meshing together as a group and then also like helping each other out overcoming the task um kind of like in in a pretty epic way like Cause the ride is so ridiculous and having that whole like through line experience with everybody, like, I think really like brings, brings people together in a really fun way that is it's, it's reminiscent to me of like, whenever I was doing like high school and college athletics, like you get towards the end of the season and like, everyone's been like training hard and like, I kind of felt like the same kind of like character arc of just like, like relying on the group to like keep going and like having that fun banter experience, like the same way, like I had on like my college sports team or my high school sports teams.
And it's funny you say that about like the, the frat vibes.
Cause I think like, there's a lot of misconception about what our group is right because you know what you see on the internet so the name pennsylvania dirtbags doesn't really help out either right
like but all those all the beer stuff it's like it's like it kind of comes off that way um which it which is fun you know it's fun to like have the the cool merch and all that stuff um But like in terms of the actual like experience, that is not even close to what we did.
Like, I mean, I'm sure somebody did, but like it really was not the focus of the trip.
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